Compilation and Installation

Compiling kdar is very easy. The following should do it:

$ ./configure --disable-debug
$ make
$ make install

That should do it! Remove the --disable-debug switch if you need to have debugging messages turned on.

configure should be able to detect the necessary settings for your system. If not, you can specify options to configure to force particular features to be enabled or disabled. To see what options libdar is compiled with, run

$ dar -V

and look for the following in the output:

 Using libdar 2.1 built with compilation time options:
   Extended Attributes support: NO
   Large files support (> 2GB): YES
   ext2fs NODUMP flag support : YES
   Special allocation scheme  : YES
   Integer size used          : 64 bits

To enable or disable largefile support (support for files larger than 2GB), pass the corresponding --enable-largefile or --disable-largefile switch to configure.

Note that if you are running one of the 32-bit or 64-bit versions of libdar, you need to pass the corresponding option to configure. e.g. to use the 64-bit version of libdar (libdar64), run

% ./configure --enable-mode=64

Should you run into any problems, first do your homework and check

If you're still stuck, please report the problem to the kdar-users@lists.sourceforge.net